Andrew McAfee

The most important general-purpose technology of our era is artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning (ML)—that is, the machine’s ability to keep improving its performance without

humans having to explain exactly how to accomplish all the tasks it’s given. Within just the past few years machine learning has become far more effective and widely available. We can now build systems that learn how to perform tasks on their own.

The machine learns from examples, rather than being explicitly programmed for a particular outcome.